 | 1853 - 636 pages
...destiny than the same number of years spent, and haply trifled away, on the banks of the Isis or the Cam. 'Every ' man,' says Gibbon, ' who rises above the...second, more personal and important, from himself.' That the second was not omitted in Mr. Disraeli's case, he gave ample and epeedy evidence. He could... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
......March 1755), were my useful studies, the foundation of all my future improvements. But every man who rises above the common level has received two...from his teachers ; the second, more personal and more important, from himself. He will not, like the fanatics of the last age, define the moment of... | |
 | T Nixon - 1806 - 176 pages
...ent'Hgh far alL How many are silly without simplicity, and artful without understanding. Every person who rises above the common level has received two...second, more personal and important from himself/ . Young people should reverence their pa-. rents at home, strangers when abroad, and themselves when... | |
 | History - 1807 - 772 pages
...— March 17$,), were my useful stildies, the foundation of all my future improvements. But every man who rises above the common level has received two...• the second, more personal and important, from himsc'f. He will not, like the fanatics of the lust age, define th? momen; oi'grabe; but he cannot... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...cependant il m'a fallu un tems considerable pour le detromper, et pour lui faire comprendre qull avoit tort rises above the common level has received two educations : the first from his teachers ; the second, more de s'assujettir a la pratique d'une eglise qu'il ne reconnoissoit plus pour infaillible ; que si meme... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...avoir obtenu la were my useful studies, the foundation of all my future improvements. But every man who rises above the common level has received two...second, more personal and important, from himself. He will not, like the fanatics of the last age, define the moment of grace ; victoire sur ces articles,... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...avoir obtcnu la L were my useful studies, the foundation of all my future improvements. But every man who rises above the common level has received two educations : the ' first from his teachers j the second, more personal and important, from himself. He will not, like the fanatics of the last... | |
 | George Barclay Mansel - Civil law - 1829 - 36 pages
...BARCLAY MANSEL, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQ. AUTHOB OF "THE LAW AMD PRACTICE OF DEMURRER," &C. " Every man who rises above the common level has received two...second, more personal and important, from himself." Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works,i. 84. id. 1814. LONDON: TR1NTKD BY WILLIAM СОХ, LOMBARD STBEET, WHITEFRIARS.... | |
 | Samuel Ward - 1834 - 84 pages
...mastery." There is a striking coincidence between this opinion and that of a distinguished historian. "Every man," says Gibbon, "-who rises above the common...second , more personal and important, from himself."* Such was the case with Locke, in rcspewt of that part of his education which referred to the acquisition... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...— March, 1755), were my useful studies, the foundation of all my future improvements. But every man who rises above the common level has received two...from his teachers ; the second, more personal and more important, from himself. He will not, like the fanatics of the last age, define the moment of... | |
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But every man who rises above the common level has received two educations : the first from his teachers ; the second, more personal and important, from himself. 
